On 5 Oct 2004, at 17:37, Steve Luttrell wrote:
> It seems
> that the conditions you feed to Minimize are "improved" by being
> wrapped in
> Reduce.
>
Well, they are not just "improved" but actually "Reduced" to
triviality. Reduce does all the work and Minimize is only left with
something that looks like this (except that with more terms)
Minimize[x + y + z, {x == 20 && y == 4 && z == 19 ||
x == 20 && y == 9 && z == 18}, {x, y, z}]
This sort of thing even Minimize can manage;-)
Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/